Specialising in French History, his work on Napoleon, subject to controversy among academics, saw him receive Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award nominations.
[8][9] In Switzerland itself reaction was also highly negative, with President Flavio Cotti denouncing the conclusions of the reports, denying the presence of camps, etc. [10] Amid the controversy, Simon Wiesenthal expressed displeasure at the publication of these articles, because he was very ill, and after a lifetime of chasing Nazis, was simply worn out, and was no longer strong enough to face another major campaign. President Flavio Cotti attempted to have these documents suppressed, but Dr Strauss-Schom was able to find and publish them first. This the result of a ten-year period of research in the French archives, reveals Napoleon's destructive personality to friends and subjected country, his love of conquest, subjugation and power. He literally held every country in Western and central Europe captive, ensured by the presence of French bayonets, their taxes going to Paris. [13] Napoleon was in the final analysis, a terrorist, the worst in European history until the arrival of Hitler and Stalin. [14] Schom also thinks, contrary to all serious historians such as Thierry Lentz (Fondation Napoléon),[15] Jean Tulard (Sorbonne and the Institut de France), Patrice Gueniffey, Sir Andrew Roberts, David A.